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that key to heaven was probably something between mistranslation and bs, but there's so many more awful shit!

electric swamp - iraq used swamps as a natural barrier, laying mines, placing mortars and HMGs around, and also putting high voltage wires in water. when iranian raid was detected, they'd just fire a bit until iranians fell to water, then turned power on

BWR fights - phoenix missiles on iranian tomcats. iraqis had no idea what's going on to the point that they suspected sabotage (mirages just fell apart in air for no reason)

war profiteering - lots of countries sold covertly weapons to iraq or to both sides, but swiss were probably worst: they sold gas masks to iran and chemical weapons precursors to iraq

ww1 era warfare complete with said chemical weapons, and also genocide of Kurds for some reason

and all for nothing (result: status quo ante bellum)

Both got much more interesting. Also, don't underestimate modern encryption

cyanide doesn't accumulate, it can be broken down in some hours (very small amounts of course). otoh many heavy metals do behave this way, maybe you worked with both at the same time

all metals that bind to sulfur well are to some degree poisonous. these are lead, mercury, thallium, some platinides (in salt form), arsenic, and also copper, but less than others. some metals have other mechanisms of toxicity, like nickel, hexavalent chromium, cadmium, beryllium or barium. some of these accumulate in brain or bones, and some don't. some are more toxic when inhaled like zinc or chromium

it's absurdly easily detected and somewhat easily treated today, not in op's setting

ah yeah the subtle, slow acting poison, the checks notes atropine

all of these work on nervous system which means that they act rapidly. this is worse than useless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides

you also get points for historical accuracy, as it was used as far back as ancient rome

also, how low tech is low tech? Litvinenko was dying for three weeks after polonium poisoning, and radium will have similar effects, first extracted 1898

it wasn't worth it with covid and all it did was a magnet for spurious, ill-understood effects. it isn't worth it even if you throw a chatbot at it, especially considering how dogshit these things are at anything factual https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-discovery/Is-drug-repurposing-worth-the-effort/99/i3 https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/drug-repurposing-how-often-does-it-work

Naleśniki are 1:1 crepes, we don't have something that americans call pancakes. there are racuchy that are halfway between american pancakes and apple fritter (with less oil, and not deep fried)

Or maybe strike was supposed to happen just before deal came into effect but someone was late, or they fucked up timezones

No good faith there either way

technically it was also not a "violation of ceasefire" because putin said any ceasefire can only happen only after all western military aid and intelligence sharing are stopped. all, not just american. clown shit

they specifically did target energy infrastructure so yes, they did https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-trump-to-hold-a-conversation-on-march-19/

it's also at the same time libertarian political project that aims to, how they put it, "separate money from state", which is in itself absurd, but not for libertarians, because their only problem with capitalism is that they're not on the top. crypto is an attempt to "fix" that "problem". see also doings of peter thiel, curtis yarvin, urbit,

first they build a place with no state interference and then they learn hard way why there's so many financial regulations. sometimes it's deliberate and it's a way to use novelty to repackage old financial crimes to deflect responsibility long enough to fuck off to Dubai. sometimes it's scams all the way and scammer already lives in North Korea

Temperatures are pretty high so you can assume that combustion is complete, and ash will remain in slag or filtered out, because exhaust has to be filtered in any serious facility periodically raided by EPA or local equivalent

technical details vary and honestly matter little. what matters more is what people do with these things, and that's what's explained

the problem with crypto is that when you try to explain it, it sounds so stupid that someone else thinks you have to be explaining it wrong

but if you want explanation, this one is fine https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html and this https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-ponzi.html

Glass, steel and aluminum recycle nicely. Copper can't be separated from steel when it's molten down together so avoid mixing these. Plastic coatings just burn down in furnace

acidic water can leach some metals from ground, so maybe that's what's going on. in that case there might be no lead in pipes and it'll still get in water because it got there before touching piping

maybe they have no idea. do you live near mines?